By Hanan Ashrawi Everybody has been talking about crisis management and damage control and will the Palestinian realities hold up or not and who’s doing what and so on without really getting back into the […]

By Mahmoud Labadi In an effort to revive the Middle East peace process Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice paid several visits to the region to push Israeli and Palestinian leaders to move forward on a […]

By Uri Avnery PalestineChronicle.com ON THE MORROW of Independence Day, a newspaper reported that an Arab child had refused to stand up while the national anthem was sung. The paper was furious. I was not. In […]

By Robert Jensen PalestineChronicle.com We know that capitalism is not just the most sensible way to organize an economy but is now the only possible way to organize an economy. We know that dissenters to […]

By Issa KhalafPalestineChronicle.com At this juncture in history Israel has most probably managed to render irreversible its incorporation of most of the West Bank, precluding a viable Palestinian state, all the while insisting on its […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com Locating Dartmouth House, where Hans von Sponeck, former UN humanitarian coordinator for Iraq was scheduled to speak in London 18 April, was a challenge. Yet having been lost for an hour in […]

By Toni SoloPalestineChronicle.com Although few direct parallels exist between the Bush regime’s debacle in Iraq and events following the Spanish catastrophe at Anoual in their Moroccan colonial war in 1921, some clearly do. The cruelty […]

By Joharah Baker For Israeli Jews, this week was all about celebrations, barbecues and oversized blue and white flags fluttering in the spring breeze as their country celebrated the 59th anniversary of its independence. For […]

By Amira Hass Talking about making and breaking a cease-fire spares the Palestinians from having to admit the failure of their Qassam missile publicity stunts. Proposals to widen the cease-fire to the West Bank sidestep […]

By Hussein Al-alak, The Iraq Solidarity CampaignSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Has anybody fallen down with shock, with the revelation by the United Nations on Wednesday 25/4/2007 that the Iraqi Government has refused to co-operate with providing […]

Israel-Palestine On Record – How the New York Times Misreports Conflict in the Middle East.  Richard Falk and Howard Friel.  Verso, New York, 2007. The American mainstream media ever since 9/11 has carried a peculiar […]

By Hussein Al-alak, The Iraq Solidarity CampaignFor PalestineChronicle.com The true intention of the US occupation of Iraq, has been exposed once more with the construction of a so-called security wall “around Sunni districts that are surrounded […]

By Afif Sarhan Nearly 700 Palestinian residents of Baghdad have fled to the western al-Anbar province and are awaiting international assistance in makeshift camps along the Iraq-Syria border. They are unable to leave Iraq since […]

By Gideon Levy There is a flagholder installed in my garden. The previous residents used it to fly the flag of their favorite soccer team. Since they left, the holder has remained orphaned. During my […]

By Amanda Gelender I attribute my deep sense of social justice to my Jewish upbringing. Active in my congregation as a child, I have fond memories of attending Jewish summer camp, Shabbat services and Purim […]

By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com Michael Chertoff, President Bush’s secretary of Homeland Security, desperately tried to refute Zbigniew Brzezinski’s cogent charge that the administration has hyped the “war on terror” to promote a “culture of fear,” in […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com In Trafalgar Square in London, dozens of journalists representing every major news organisation descended on a designated corner in the tourist infested area in support of Alan Johnston, the BBC correspondent kidnapped […]

By Remi KanaziPalestineChronicle.com For all his chauvinistic, misogynistic and racist drivel, old man Imus finally got the boot. I can’t say I feel particularly bad, considering his confederate-style punditry and his perpetuation of negative imagery […]

By Ben WhitePalestineChronicle.com Another Israel/Palestine ‘peace plan’ has been added to the long list of diplomatic dances that have come and gone in recent years, and this time it is a reheated version of the […]

By Asaad Talhami If there is one solid bit of truth that comes out of the Israeli press coverage of the spurious case concocted against Azmi Bishara it is that the Zionist establishment is of one […]

By Felicity ArbuthnotPalestineChronicle.com By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down …. we hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. (Psalms 137:1) It must have been an article I wrote recently, […]

By Amira Hass The cynicism inherent in the attitude of the institutions of the Jewish state to Holocaust survivors is not a revelation to those born and living among them. We grew up with the […]

By Rami Almeghari in GazaPalestineChronicle.com The building, where the American school of Gaza is situated, is no longer beautiful; the damage can be seen in many corners of the school; in the front door, in […]

By Stephen LendmanPalestineChronicle.com Chris Hedges is a journalist who for two decades was a foreign correspondent for the New York Times spending much of his time reporting from conflict zones in El Salvador, the Middle […]

By Dr. Daud Abduallah Special to PalestineChronicle.com Any combination of factors can determine the success or failure of political negotiations. The complex nature of the conflict, attitudes of principal players and their lack of freedom […]

By John Walsh "AIPAC!" was the forceful one-word answer of Congressman Michael Capuano when we asked him, "Why was the Iran clause forbidding war on Iran without Congressional approval taken out of the recent supplemental […]

By Neve Gordon PalestineChronicle.com In early April the rumors about Dr. Azmi Bishara, the most famous Arab Knesset member, began circulating on the Internet: Bishara is afraid to return to Israel; Bishara intends to resign […]

By Linda Heard That’s it! From now on the term neoconservative or neocon should go down in history as a dirty word. These pro-endless war, pro-US global domination, pro-Israel disciples of Leo Strauss, a Chicago […]

By Alison WeirPalestineChronicle.com I attended an extremely disturbing event Thursday night. It was hosted by WETA, the PBS station in Washington DC, and was part of the national launch of an 11-part PBS series, "America […]

By Philip Rizk Special to PalestineChronicle.com Walking through the long passage that takes you into Gaza, I saw a man on a walker. Next to him walked another, completely helpless as his companion moved forward […]